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    6/28/2019 3:54 PM  #1

    6sally6
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    Preminition????..........maybe

    Went to a local cruise in last night and when I left I tore the rear universal out of the "old hot rod"...glad it wasn't on the road to Michigan(or back).
    Wasn't even "show'in-out" or nuthin
    6s6

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    6/28/2019 4:01 PM  #2

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    Re: Preminition????..........maybe

    well sal, I found I have a rear main seal leaking!  I'd trade you for that U joint!!  Only good thing is I do have a lift and I do have a transmission lift, just hate tearing my car apart!!
     

     

    6/28/2019 7:50 PM  #3

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    Don't let it get Ya down Terry, you will prevail.

    Tubo

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    6/28/2019 9:04 PM  #4

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    Re: Preminition????..........maybe

    terry wrote:

    well sal, I found I have a rear main seal leaking!  I'd trade you for that U joint!!  Only good thing is I do have a lift and I do have a transmission lift, just hate tearing my car apart!!
     

      I did my rear main seal 2 piece 3 times and it still leaks. I did my on floor ramps.  I wont be doing it again.  So when the engine blows or goes then Ill fix that problem with a new engine. 
     

     

    6/28/2019 9:06 PM  #5

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    Hope you get it fixed soon Mike!

     

    6/28/2019 10:26 PM  #6

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    Re: Preminition????..........maybe

    Is that engine so powerful that it can break stuff at just above idle??

    Will you get the driveshaft checked to make sure it’s still straight and balanced??

    John  -- 67 Mustang Coupe 390 5 speed
     

    6/29/2019 5:05 AM  #7

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    Not with the kind of cams he likes

     

    6/29/2019 10:21 AM  #8

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    Rats, Terry, that drive from Vandalia to the bash must have did it.
    Oh, wait...
    Nevermind...

    Money you enjoy wasting is NOT wasted money... unless your wife finds out.
     

    6/30/2019 4:25 AM  #9

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    6sally6 wrote:

    Went to a local cruise in last night and when I left I tore the rear universal out of the "old hot rod"...glad it wasn't on the road to Michigan(or back).
    Wasn't even "show'in-out" or nuthin
    6s6

    Whoa! I cannot imagine this and am real curious as to how it happened and what it felt like...
     

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    6/30/2019 4:53 AM  #10

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    When it happened to me it was pretty uneventful.  Went to pull out and heard a bang, followed by clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk.  I told my buddy that one of his u-joints was bad, but he kept saying "its something in the suspension".  Yeah, what do I know about cars vs. the guy who put so much oil in a lawnmower one time that it locked the engine solid from the crankcase being so full the piston couldn't move downward?  Here endeth the lesson entitled how to turn a $20 repair into a $350 repair. 

     

    6/30/2019 5:14 AM  #11

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    TKOPerformance wrote:

    When it happened to me it was pretty uneventful.  Went to pull out and heard a bang, followed by clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk.  I told my buddy that one of his u-joints was bad, but he kept saying "its something in the suspension".  Yeah, what do I know about cars vs. the guy who put so much oil in a lawnmower one time that it locked the engine solid from the crankcase being so full the piston couldn't move downward?  Here endeth the lesson entitled how to turn a $20 repair into a $350 repair. 

    Well... This leads me to ask the question "how long do you get out of a set of uni joints"?
     

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    6/30/2019 10:31 AM  #12

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    Re: Preminition????..........maybe

    Depends, the greasable ones' if kept greased seem to last forever.  The non greaseable ones probably about 100k miles, assuming they are operating at good angles.  If they are off kilter, or encounter bind I wouldn't except anywhere near that out of them. 

     

    6/30/2019 7:41 PM  #13

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    Well......mine "show-didn't-last-no-hunderd-thou"!

       I must admit....I have pulled the shaft out (ohhhhhh! ) several times and  one or both of the caps fell off and the roller pins fell out. I did put them back in butt..I know it wasn't "good-fer-'em".
       I had noticed a new slight vibration a few drives back (maybe even when BulletBob/"B-squared" went cruis'in with me)  I don't have trans cross member rubber mounted  so I put up with some vibration. (Come-on MAN......this is a hot rod!! )
    I was on the way home from the cruise in and I sez to my  "passenger"...too nice out- lets take the long way home", so I turned left instead of going straight (although I AM straight....this is different, well...I AM different too...anyhow)
    I didn't really "nail-it"  butt.....I did sorta "wring-it-out" good in first and second. Went to third and BLAM..... just like I had kicked-in-the-clutch!!!
       Naturally I -oh no I used a word I shouldn't have--umed...the most expensive thing  first. "Well-there-went-the-transmission" I said.
    Coasted into the Methodist church parking lot and took a look before AAA got there. The rear uni had snapped   (both of the cups were GONE !) and the X-pipe in the exhaust had caught the shaft. It dropped down just enough that it slide back and dis-engaged from the tranny. Hence the absence of fram-fram-blam-blam of a whipping shaft!! Got by pretty cheap really.
    Relaced it today and took it for a test run. Works good.
       Butt now my electric cooling fan seems to have taken-a-dump . Pegged the temp guage on the way to the gas station!
       Just can't seem to "put-one-in-the-win-column" lately.
    6sal6

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    6/30/2019 8:02 PM  #14

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    Mike glad to hear minor inconvenience.  I would have had some choice words too.  I make sure that the grease zerk is being compressed during normal rotation in forward gears.  Otherwise the torque during hard acceleration would try to separate the web at zerk fitting.  Theoretically it should not matter for operation but that’s what I have always done.  Probably read that many years ago in 4x4 magazines ...yeah magazines of yesteryear.

     

     

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